ISIS sets up English-speaking brigade to target Western countries

The Islamic State has created an English language group of fighters, whose aim is to bring the terrorist organization’s fight to the West. The first step is to send foreign fighters back home after they have completed their training.

The brigade, which is known as the ‘Anwar al-Awlaki Battalion,’
is made up solely of English speaking jihadists. The Islamic
State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) now want to use this group of
Islamists to plan and carryout terrorist attacks in English
speaking countries. The anti-Islamic State group, Raqqa Is Being
Slaughtered Silently, made the claims, reported by the
International Business Times.

According to the group, which is opposed to IS, the jihadists
received their instructions on Thursday to carry out an attack in
an English speaking country. Part of the aim of sending militants
to Europe and America to carry out attacks, is to try and sway
public opinion in the West to stop coalition strikes against IS
in Iraq and Syria. The militants also want to destabilize
security services in these countries and create a climate of fear
amongst the local populations.

“Finally, the order has been issued to implement an armed
operation within my country,” an IS fighter, who spoke in
English in the Awlaki battalion reportedly told an activist in
Raqqa, after the militants had undergone training regimes with
the group. “I am now ready to return to my town and carry out
operations, now I am able to do jihad in Europe,” according
to the Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently group.

The newly formed English language battalion is named after Anwar
al-Awlaki, who was an American born Islamist militant, who died
in Yemen after a US drone strike in September 2011. He was
responsible for spreading the group's militant message to
European and English-speaking audiences.

Said Kouachi, who was one of the two terrorists involved in this
month’s attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, traveled to
Yemen and there are unconfirmed reports that he met with
al-Awlaki during his time in the Arabian Peninsula.

The Islamic State has used foreign fighters in prominent
positions to promote its propaganda in the past. A British
militant Jihadi John, who speaks with a London accent, is
believed to have beheaded American freelance journalist James
Foley and other Western hostages.